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...Wright is fascinated by the sensations conveyed by words, and these mentions to outside works help anchor poems that may otherwise be too abstract to a world the reader knows.One of the many references made throughout these poems is to Gerald Manley Hopkins, the 19th-century British poet and Jesuit Priest. Hopkins himself struggled to understand the world and did so by finding God behind the exquisite beauty he saw in nature. Wright’s poems find beauty as well, but his world view is much more nebulous than that of Hopkins...
...nattily dressed father of three, British science-fiction and international "cult author" J.G. Ballard was the picture of suburban propriety. But the orderliness of his personal life allowed him to create a surreal, visionary fiction that was often frankly pathological...
...Private schools were closed for two weeks for fear that militants would attempt a siege, along the lines of the Taliban attack on a police academy in Lahore last month. And an unspecified threat against foreigners two weeks ago resulted in the closure of the U.S. embassy and the British High Commission...
Despite the gnashing of teeth all this tampering has prompted, the debate is sure to continue. After all, British director Guy Ritchie will presumably have to feature a pipe in ads for his upcoming movie about Sherlock Holmes, due out in France next year. And promising to be even more inflammatory, marketing will soon start on French director Joann Sfar's film about late French signer Serge Gainsbourg, a pop hero whose bad boy image was built on lavish public displays of tobacco and alcohol abuse. Good luck banning that...
...British tabloid News of the World purported to have caught Rubina's father, Rafiq Qureshi, on video agreeing to a deal to sell the girl to an Arab sheikh for 200,000 pounds (about $280,000). The story quoted Qureshi's brother as saying, "The child is special now. This is not an ordinary child. This is an Oscar child." Without bothering to check the allegations with Qureshi, Indian newspapers and cable television channels descended on Rubina in her home in a slum in Bandra, a suburb of Mumbai, asking her to clarify the incident. Qureshi has consistently denied...